Standpoint Theories Reconsidered

Friedrich Nietzsche once remarked that "only that which has no history is definable" (1998, II sect. 13). Standpoint theories do have a history, at least back to the work of Dorothy Smith (1974, 1984), Patricia Hill Collins (1986, 1990) and Nancy Hartsock (1983), and arguably further to second wave feminism more generally, or even to Marx and Hegel.